The artillery bombardment of the positions outside the west of the city was over, and the Japanese troops, who had already been prepared, launched a large-scale attack, and Zheng Yunshan, the commander of the guard company who was ordered to take over the command of the third battalion, led the officers and men of the third battalion to fight back.

Hundreds of dragon's tooth warriors emerged from the trenches and fortifications, firing one after another, and rows of dense bullets rained down on the hordes of devils.

Many devils were immediately shot and fell down screaming, and other devils quickly shot back.

Qiao Youhua and the four of them also happened to return to the county seat at this time, and the four of them didn't have time to return to the regiment headquarters, so they went straight to the Guò tunnel and rushed to the battlefield in the west of the city.

At this time, the gunfire outside the city was loud, and the bullets were as dense as rain, and they were as dazzling as meteors in the dark night. In order to give full play to the superiority of their own forces, the Japanese artillery immediately fired a large number of flares.

In an instant, a large area of the thick night was dispelled, and the battlefield in the west of the city was as bright as day.

It can be clearly seen that thousands of devils with guns in their hands swarmed forward, like a tide, charging the position of the three battalions in wave after wave.

On the position of the three battalions, all kinds of light and heavy weapons fired in volleys, and countless tongues of fire continued to spew out, firing a large number of bullets and blocking the approach of the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops in the charge also continued to shoot back, and launched fierce fire with the other side, and some devil artillery and grenadiers also took the opportunity to open fire on individual machine gun fire points of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force.

The casualty rate of both the offensive and defensive sides was increasing and rising, and after Qiao Youhua came out of the tunnel entrance, he quickly dispersed, each looking for a suitable position and joining the battle.

Instead of using the precious Type 95 assault rifles, they picked up the rifles and machine guns of the fallen soldiers and continued to shoot in place of the fallen officers and soldiers.

Jiang Haidong and Ma Biao got both Type 38 rifles, while Wu Ming took over a heavy machine gunner who had just been shot and died, and operated the Type 92 heavy machine gun.

Qiao Youhua picked up a Czech light machine gun, and the machine gunner was hit by the grenade shrapnel thrown by the devil's grenadier just now, and died a heroic death.

Seeing that the crowd of devils was getting closer and closer, Qiao Youhua simply put away the bracket of the Czech light machine gun, stood up with the machine gun, and ignored the dense rain of bullets flying over his head that was swishing past his ears, and began to shoot violently.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun in Wu Ming's hand also roared angrily, and he kept strafing back and forth, controlling a large area, causing great damage to the devils in this area.

The accurate sniping of Ma Biao and Jiang Haidong also quickly showed their power, and in the area they could see, the machine gunners, commanders, and grenadiers of the devils began to lose their blood.

The most important thing is that the arrival of a regiment commander and three battalion commanders to fight side by side with the vast number of officers and men has greatly boosted the morale of the officers and men, stimulated their combat potential, and thus burst out into a more powerful overall combat effectiveness.

In this era, most of the soldiers are illiterate big-headed soldiers, and they may not understand the great principles of national righteousness, but as the founder and leader of this army, they fight side by side, live and die together, advance and retreat together, but they can make these big-headed soldiers enthusiastic and excited to the top.

In an instant, his eyes were red, and he became a fierce fighting soldier who was not afraid of death!

The officials are not afraid of death, and the respected regiment commanders are not afraid, what are they afraid of? In this case, I didn't say it, shoot and kill these attacking Oriental pirates!

After the four people joined, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers was brought into full play, and the coordinated command of Qiao Youhua's four people from time to time made up for the lack of firepower in various places on the position.

And just when the Japanese army felt that this attack was hopeless and was about to end in failure, a dull shelling suddenly sounded again in the city, and then the shells flew out and fell, completely shattering the last bit of faith of the devil.

After a series of explosions burst out, the devil's charge finally stopped, and began to retreat rapidly in the direction from which it came, as if the tide had receded, and in just a few minutes, it withdrew from the effective range of the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion of Longya.

The gunfire also stopped.

After a while, a rush of footsteps came from the trench behind Qiao Youhua, and the political commissar Guo Meng ran over with a few guards from a tunnel entrance.

The shelling just now was Guo Meng's order, she waited left and right in the city, seeing that the sky was almost dawn, Qiao Youhua and they had not come back yet, they were anxious like ants on a hot pot, and suddenly got a report that the regiment commander had returned, but they had gone to the west of the city to participate in the war.

In a hurry, Guo Meng found Ma Yunlong and asked him to organize an artillery bombardment, which happened to help the third battalion repel the Japanese attack.

"Let's go, don't stay here, it's dangerous, in case a shell flies and reimburses us all, who will command the troops?" Qiao Youhua stood up and looked at Guo Mengdao who was walking towards him.

Without speaking, Guo Meng followed Qiao Youhua into the tunnel and returned to the city, as the commander of the third battalion, Wu Ming stayed, Jiang Haidong and Ma Biao also returned to their respective defense areas through the guò traffic trench.

At the same time, in the command of the 8th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

A devil officer walked in and said to Major General Aoki with some guilt: "Your Excellency General, the lowly attack has failed, please punish you." ”

Major General Aoki turned around from the map, looked at the gray-faced officer Osa, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I don't blame you this time, you go down and rest, after dawn, you have to attack again!" ”

The devil Dazuo glanced at Major General Aoki flattered, and hurriedly bowed his head to thank him, and then turned around and left in thanks.

"General, the attack has failed, do you need to let the artillery group open fire again?" An adjutant stepped forward and asked.

Major General Aoki waved his hand and said: "No, after tonight's incident, all the units of the imperial army have not rested well, they are tired, the attack just now, I know that it will not work, the reason why I did that is just to give General Itagaki Seishiro an explanation!" Tomorrow is the time for the real showdown! ”

"A decisive battle?" The devil adjutant said.

"Yes, in the decisive battle, a large number of military supplies of the 5th Division were destroyed, and the people of China had previously snatched all the grain within a radius of one or two hundred miles in this vicinity, and the food of the imperial army was already insufficient.

Now it is almost to the point of being overstretched, the 5th Division has no military rations, and our 10th Division is not trying to be alone! Therefore, the people of China can afford to drag it out, but we can't afford to drag it out, so we must do our best to break through the county seat and annihilate the defenders in the city!

Otherwise, if the battle drags on for a long time, something will inevitably happen! That's extremely bad for the Imperial Army! Major General Aoki said with a thoughtful frown.