The 2nd Infantry Division defended positions.

Division Commander Chen Erwa was standing in front of the headquarters he had just repaired, holding a telescope and looking at the direction of the little devil in the distance, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and in another hour, the sky would slowly get dark.

On the blocking position of the Second Infantry Division, nearly 10,000 people of several infantry regiments have been put in place, and the fortifications have been built, and the soldiers are patiently waiting for the arrival of the little devil.

In the trenches of the fortifications, some soldiers are carefully looking ahead, and some company commanders and platoon commanders are lying in the trenches, holding their binoculars, carefully looking at the front of the road.

The second infantry division is Zhang Yunfei's old army, there are many veterans in it, and the combat effectiveness is also a relatively strong infantry division, although the big war is coming now, but everyone seems to be relatively relaxed, and a few recruits who were still a little nervous were affected by the veterans, and gradually calmed down.

Division Commander Chen Erwa's headquarters was condescending, and he could see far through the telescope, and several defensive positions at the foot of the mountain and halfway up the mountainside, as well as the winding road beyond.

At the end of the far highway, the figure of the little devil began to appear, more than a dozen big devil trucks took the lead, each big car was full of little devils, behind these big trucks, there were many little devils running to keep up, it seems that the vanguard of the little devils has finally arrived.

The vanguard of the little devil is a field infantry wing of the 4th division of the little devil, and the large troops behind will arrive here one after another within an hour, and the other two divisions of the little devil will also arrive here one after another two or three hours.

The 4th Division of the Little Devil is one of the 17 permanent divisions of the Little Devil, and the 4th Division, also known as the Osaka Division or the "Merchant Division", is the Army A Division of the Little Devil. Although it is a permanent division, the actual combat capability of the 4th Division is not high.

The 4th Division has about 22,000 troops, 4 wings, and standard first-class equipment, which can be called the "elite" of the army. However, not long after its establishment, the reputation of "wrecked waste" spread throughout the army. In particular, the 8th Wing, the core unit of the 4th Division, was nicknamed "the 8th Wing that was not afraid of defeat" because of its repeated defeats in the Russo-Russian War.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the 4th Division moved to various parts of North China, and participated in large-scale battles such as the Battle of Xuzhou, but it was also "famous" in China.

As early as during the "Battle of Xuzhou", the Chinese [***] team encountered this "strange army".

At that time, in the face of the encirclement of the Yue army, Li Zongren commanded 400,000 troops to skillfully jump out of the encirclement of the Yue army. After breaking through, the [***] team was already sleepy and lacking in people, lost a lot of heavy equipment, and its combat effectiveness was sharply reduced. Just when crossing a road on the border of Lusu-Anhui, they found that a well-equipped and advancing army appeared on the road ahead, and at this moment, the exhausted squadron was panicked and left the road in confusion and retreated to the nearby mountains.

The strange thing is that after a long time, the commander of the squadron sent people to inquire in surprise, but saw that the army had no intention of pursuing, on the contrary, they also burned food on both sides of the road. This "strange army" was the southward detachment of the Fourth Division.

Because they had just jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army, the situation was still very dangerous, so the squadron had no choice but to cross the highway with one heart, and the result was a safe journey. Afterwards, the captain of the Nanjin Army detachment explained to his superiors on the grounds of "strictly abiding by operational discipline": "I did not receive an order to intercept the [***] team. ”

When the news reached the Naka[***] team, the saying that "Osaka's soldiers will not fight" spread. Every time they fought, when the [***] team heard that the opponent was the "Osaka Division", their morale often increased greatly, and they rushed to engage the 4th Division. (Picking soft pinching has always been a universal truth.) The 4th Division, which had just arrived at the front line, was caught off guard and suffered several defeats one after another, and even implicated friendly troops, so much so that friendly neighboring troops complained to the headquarters of the 11th Army of the little devil where the 4th Division was located: "With the 4th Division participating in the battle, the battle that could have been won will also be lost, because the morale of the enemy army has been greatly boosted......"

The current division commander of the 4th Division is Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, which has four field infantry wings under its command, including the 8th, 37th, 61st, and 70th, in addition to a mountain artillery wing, an engineer wing, and a baggage wing.

Division Commander Chen, who was standing in front of the headquarters, saw a large number of troops appearing a few kilometers away, and immediately ordered: "Inform all troops that the vanguard of the little devils is less than five kilometers away from us, and everyone should immediately prepare for battle." ”

On the first forward position of the Second Infantry Division, stationed here is the Second Regiment of the First Infantry Brigade, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Second Regiment, after receiving the order to prepare for battle, many veterans stopped chatting and smoking, but entered the combat position with a serious expression, and looked intently at the road a few hundred meters ahead.

The vanguard of the little devil was the 8th Wing of the 4th Division, which had the nickname "not afraid of defeat", and the little devil also found that there were many fortifications on both sides of the road ahead, on more than a dozen hills, large and small, and many Chinese soldiers were waiting there.

The commander of the 8th Wing of the Little Devil ordered the troops to stop less than two kilometers in front of the position of the 2nd Infantry Division, spread out into battle formation, prepare for the attack, and reported the situation to his division commander Yamashita Fufumi.

The little devil is also in a hurry to reinforce Guisui now, so Yamashita Fengfu immediately gave the order to the 8th Wing to attack with all its might, trying to knock on the defensive position of the [***] team in one fell swoop.

The more than 2,000 soldiers of the 2nd Regiment were at the forefront of the entire position, and on two small hills on both sides of the road, each of which was not high, and the distance from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain was less than three or four hundred meters.

At the foot of the hills on both sides of the road, several trenches were dug less than 100 meters from the road, and a large number of soldiers had set up their guns and carefully aimed ahead, and in the trenches, many 60-mm mortars had been erected.

The two infantry brigades of the little devils, more than 2,000 people, opened an offensive formation several hundred meters wide along the road and the flat ground on both sides of the road, and were slowly coming, less than 800 meters away from the soldiers' positions.

Seeing that the little devil had invested so many troops to attack at once, the commander of the second infantry regiment looked solemn, and thought to himself, the little devil was even exempted from the usual temptation attack, it seems that the person who came was not good.

In addition to investing a large number of troops to attack at once, the little devil's mountain artillery squadron and eight Type 92 infantry guns of 70 mm caliber are also ready to open fire to cooperate with the infantry attack.

The soldiers of the second regiment were looking at the little devil in the distance with all their attention, and suddenly they heard the sound of the little devil's 92-type infantry cannon firing in the distance, and then they heard a large number of sharp whistling sounds in the sky, many soldiers knew that the artillery of the little devil began to shell, and the experienced soldiers immediately hid in the trenches, and they didn't even bother to show their heads, anyway, the infantry attacked by the little devils was still far away.

Division Commander Chen, who was watching the battle from the top of the mountain in the distance, saw that the little devils were shelling as soon as they came up, and they were attacking in a big way.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Chen Erwa's mouth, and she thought in her heart, the little devil dares to act with a few small cannons, doesn't he know that he has a 105mm howitzer regiment? The commander of this little devil unit must have water in his head, no wonder everyone privately said that the 4th Division of the little devil is a strange army.

"Order the artillery regiment to knock out the little devil's small cannons for me."

The soldiers of the 2nd Regiment, hiding in the trenches for less than two minutes, heard a familiar sharp whistling sound in their ears, which was the sound of 105-mm howitzer shells of their own artillery regiment flying in the sky.

Many soldiers, risking being bombarded by the little devil's Type 92 infantry artillery, secretly poked their heads out of the trenches, only to see that the attacking little devil infantry was only about four or five hundred meters away from their position, and a large number of shells in the sky flew towards the little devil artillery position nearly two thousand meters away.

I saw that a series of violent explosions of "boom, boom, boom" sounded on the artillery position of the little devils, and the artillery positions of the little devils were covered with mud and smoke, and some company and platoon commanders holding binoculars also saw that the 92-type infantry guns of the little devils were blown apart and blown away, and a large number of little devils were also abandoned by the air waves generated by the explosion, flying several meters high.

The artillery regiment's shelling lasted only about a minute, and hundreds of 105-millimeter howitzers were fired into the artillery positions of the little devils, and the artillery squadron of the little devils, who were still showing off their might just now, was immediately wiped out, and the artillery positions of the little devils were left with only big pits and many stumps and broken arms.

The captain of the little devil wing, seeing that his artillery squadron was suddenly defeated by the squadron, immediately turned blue with anger, and immediately ordered his troops in a hurry, and the two infantry brigades that were advancing on the cat's waist hurriedly attacked.

The soldiers of the second regiment, seeing that the artillery position of the little devil was knocked out, and the sky was quiet again, many soldiers shook the dirt on their bodies, lay in the trench, holding guns and waiting for the little devil in the distance to enter the firing range.