After the high temperature fumigation of 38 degrees during the day, the night finally cooled down, under the moonlight, the entire Zhili Plain was silent, and the fighting and artillery fire in the day seemed to have never happened.

Major Wang Jiongwu, deputy battalion of artillery of the 142nd Division, stood by the North Canal, and felt a little homesick for the river, which is actually the northernmost section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, a canal of more than 1,700 kilometers, and finally reached the end, and his home is in Shengzhou on the other side of the canal. For Wang Jiongwu, who participated in the revolution at the age of 17 and is only 24 years old this year, life is exciting enough, the first time he participated in the war was at Meiling Pass in Quzhou, that time it was an ambush of the Manchu general Feng Guozhang, and he was the commander of the miscellaneous platoon at that time, in fact, he was a student soldier, and the Qing army arranged the firepower point on the banner mountain, which was knocked out by the battalion commander Nie Litang with him one by one.

Under the moonlight, the river of the North Canal is miao, but it is a bit like the river in the south, and under the moonlight, Major Wang Jiongwu is standing next to the gun emplacement by the river, in addition to homesickness, he also remembers a lot of past events. Hangzhou fought to Yanzhou, Yanzhou fought to Quzhou, Quzhou and then returned to Hangzhou, so went around, this is the course of the Yanzhou Revolutionary Army, but he, a student soldier from the Yanzhou Revolutionary Army, eventually became an artillery officer, and then was transferred to Beijing. Unlike the propaganda views of the political zhì department, he did not think that there was any difference between the Manchus and the Japanese, both were alien races, both wanted to die in China, and both wanted to rule China. The former has already been defeated by himself, while the latter has not yet come to power and will never come to power -- more than 500 years ago, Qi Dashuai led the Zhejiang soldiers to kill the Japanese bandits, and today he will kill these Japanese bandits.

Wang Jiongwu wanted to kill the Japanese invaders, but the Japanese also wanted to kill the revival army. The Japanese army was full of this kind of thought. At three o'clock in the evening, they cautiously touched a kilometer away from the trench of the Baath Army and began to crawl on the ground -- inspired by the Baath Army, these Japanese troops who attacked at night also prepared some camouflage cloth. However, these camouflage are not military uniforms, but capes. And the hats on their bodies, because of the conspicuous yellow circle, have also been removed, after all, it doesn't matter if you wear a hat or not relative to success.

Lieutenant Oshima, who had been here in the evening before, had been here with a sign to contain the corpses of his own soldiers, and he was now at the front of the line when he was more familiar with the terrain. After climbing less than a hundred meters against the still hot earth, the lieutenant suddenly felt that he had pressed something. Knowing what he had done, he hurriedly raised his hand backwards, signaling to stop advancing, not thinking that Cao Chang in the rear would be wrong, and dimly thought that he was beckoning, and the two of them were tragic after pounced.

With a "......bang", the infantry mines planted in front of the trench exploded suddenly, and the rare silence of the night was immediately broken.

The mines exploded, and the soldiers stationed in the trenches immediately greeted the front with machine guns, and the muffled sound of gunfire characteristic of Maxim beat like drums. Wake up more people. The machine guns fired, and the mortars also lit up the sky, so that everything flickered, bright - dark; Light-Dark...... Under the illumination of flares. Barbed wire in the distance, artillery dragged closer, and black figures appeared.

The night awoke, roared, and the moonlight was dispelled. A shuttle machine-gun bullet was fired at the front of the trench, and the mortar began to fire rapidly. They have no goal but to gamble and play a fan, and they have no head; Then. The rifles began to sound crisp and monotonous, and by the light of the flares, they shot at a suspicious place, and so much fire was fired that the pungent smell of explosives immediately filled the air.

Knowing that they were still far away from the revival army, the Japanese army was still sneaking in the rain of bullets, and they had to climb to a distance of 300 meters or even 200 meters before they could charge on board. While these fierce Japanese soldiers crawled forward regardless of casualties, the Japanese mountain artillery behind them and outside the range of the 60 mortars of the Fuxing Army began to directly bombard the barbed wire in front of the trenches. The lesson of the mountainous areas of Liaodong is bloody, they no longer believe that howitzers can break through the barbed wire, especially the barbed wire of the revival army, with every attack, their only way is to drag light mountain artillery to bombard directly, according to the Japanese army's private reality, for the revival army's unique roof-like barbed wire, eight meters deep arrangement, mountain artillery at a distance of two thousand meters needs a hundred grenades to tear a ten-meter-long hole.

100 rounds of grenades, a new type of mountain artillery takes 13 minutes to complete, plus the actual combat misfire, this time is often close to 20 minutes, so every time the barbed wire is bombarded, the Japanese army will at least arrange more than two mountain guns to bombard a place at the same time, in order to open the barbed wire as quickly as possible, so that their own infantry can charge over.

The actual combat experience of the Northeast Theater was summed up by a special staff officer, and then it was quickly pushed to the whole country. Watching the Japanese mountain artillery two thousand meters away bombarding his front line one after another, Wang Jiongwu immediately understood the thoughts of the Japanese army, and immediately shouted to the gunners on the gun position: "Don't wait for the order, shoot directly at the enemy artillery." ”

He walked behind the gun mount, felt the gunner's already tense back, pushed him away gently, and then began to squeeze the body of the high and low machine, his eyes pressed to the scope, and turned it to the flickering fire of the gun, aiming it at a point in the darkness that was constantly spitting out fire.

At his command, short, edge-shattering flames flew into the darkness, and the cannon burst into a deafening chamber that rolled up a wave of heat, while the cannon body shook violently, and the sand creaked under the sleepers.

"Brake hoe!" Wang Jiongwu shouted, and then pressed his eyes to the sight again. He reluctantly found that the shell just now exploded at the lower and more remote point where the enemy artillery fired, so he habitually touched it with his hands, enlarged the gauge, and then gave the order to open the cannon, the sound of the cannon was still deafening, but these were ignored, and all his energy was focused on the enemy artillery two kilometers ahead. At the same time as he fired his cannon, the 80 mortars in the regiment also fired, and another field gun next to him also opened fire, the artillery fire flashed brightly, and the hot and stinging wind swept the dust in his face.

The scope moved and tightened. Fingers grip the mechanical handle, and then a shot. The shells burned and extinguished like bonfires two kilometers ahead, and with them the fire that had been flickering there just now. Wang Jiongwu waited for a few seconds. When the light of the flare penetrated into the scope again, the machine gun began to erupt again, and suddenly, in the scope, he saw a stubborn and active flickering fire. 'What a stubborn wrinkle! He cursed inwardly.

"Four shots, rapid fire!" Wang Jiongwu shouted. Then there were piles of bonfires in front of him, and in order to see more clearly, he took his eyes off the scope and picked up the telescope. At this moment, another flare flashed. Every air over there was brightly illuminated, the enemy artillery positions and the earth piled on the side of the emergency excavation were clearly visible, and the 80 mortar shells continued to explode near the artillery positions, at this moment, the Japanese troops who were ambushed in front of their trenches could no longer hold on, and some of them launched a decisive charge forward, but these people were quickly picked up by the machine guns, and the latter part was retreating sharply, although the machine guns could not take care of them for a while. But countless 60 mortar shells covered them, and as the ghosts cried wolves, these people either blew up or fell to the ground, and none of them escaped.

"What a death!" Wang Jiongwu cursed. Although he is not an infantryman, he understands how strong the front-line firepower of the infantry is, with the artillery regiment he is in. They had to rest their crops within a kilometer of the trenches, not to mention the would-be pirates who had nothing but bayonets and mountain artillery.

It didn't take long for the fire clearance of the Japanese troops on the front line to end. The flares no longer rose, and the entire front of the position was again shrouded in the white moonlight. In this moonlight, only the wails of the wounded and undead Japanese soldiers in front of the trenches were sparse and intermittent.

The revival army's side was quiet, but Lieutenant General Zhangjingkou Shengwu of the 15th Division, who witnessed this qiē three kilometers away, was stunned. The attack was launched according to the plan of the headquarters, and there was probably a company of soldiers who carried out a white-knuckle assault, but they were unlucky, and before they could enter the enemy's trench, they triggered a mine, which made the hidden efforts undone. Based on the experience of the Russo-Japanese War, as long as the mountain artillery can break through the enemy's barbed wire, then the soldiers can still make a decisive assault regardless of casualties, but who can talk about the fact that the mortars of the Chinese army can hit two kilometers away, and there are direct-aim field artillery behind the trenches of the Chinese army?

The mountain artillery that shot the barbed wire fence was quickly killed by mortar and direct-aim field artillery, but even if the mountain artillery was not killed, would the own death squad be able to rush to the enemy position? Before that, Lieutenant General Iguchi thought that it was possible, but after witnessing the enemy's dense machine guns, Lieutenant General Iguchi suddenly felt that there was no such possibility, the number of machine gun equipment of the Chinese army was much higher than that of the Russian army, and they also had the kind of wooden curved guns that rained down as soon as they were fired, and the distance of several hundred meters seemed to be very short, but in fact it was impossible to rush through.

Iguchi made a decisive assessment of the position of the Renaissance Army with his own observations, and just as he was thinking about how to break through such a dense position, Chief of Staff Matsuyama Yoshishuo Osaku said: "Your Excellency, the command has called us to attack again. ”

"Nani!" Iguchi said angrily, and then thought of the whole plan, his tense body softened again, the plan of the headquarters was to first assault the white-knuckle battle at night, and in case of failure, it was a strong attack, so as to put enough pressure on the frontal defense line of the Chinese army to cover the flank roundabout attack, although the front line attack was difficult, but for the sake of the entire battle plan, it was impossible not to attack.

"Inform the artillery wing to immediately open fire on the Chinese army, and do not care about the shells." Iguchi commanded.

"Hay!" The chief of staff nodded, but he did not leave after he agreed, and the division commander only said artillery, not the infantry.

Looking at the chief of staff standing in front of him, Iguchi immediately understood what was going on, and after a while he sighed, "Go ahead, the infantry will also start to attack to the death." ”

The surprise attack failed, followed by a strong attack, and the Japanese artillery was no longer as sloppy as it was during the day, and now they were constantly pouring shells to the north, only burning the sky red. However, they were not happy for long, the artillery fire of the revival army guided by the airship returned fire, and the qiē in the day began to repeat itself, although the Japanese army learned a lesson and scattered the artillery array very widely, and the position was dug very deep, only the cannon barrel was exposed outside, but there were still shells that fell close and exploded, and some explosions caused the ammunition to detonate, and the shells fired by the Japanese artillery were even more messy, and many of the shells lost their accuracy, and they did not know where they fell.

The Baath Army had airships, and the Japanese raised the spare observation balloon, and looking at the dense artillery fire to the north, the observers on the balloon immediately fed back the position to the cannon wing placed in the rear. With the twenty-four cannons firing, the artillery fire of the Baxing Army stopped. The counter-battery operations on both sides have only come to an end.

When the Japanese army's night attack failed, the front-line headquarters in Wuqing County was busy. The location of the Japanese attack was quickly marked on the situation map, and when the Japanese army switched from night attack to strong attack, more staff officers were busy.

Lei Yizhen is tired, he has been arranging the details of the entire defense of the capital in the past few days, for the enemy attacking from the south, Beijing is not a good place to defend, if the Japanese army moves, there will be their troops in all directions, which will bring great pressure to the defense. After all, the capital is not Liaodong, and it is impossible to completely strengthen the walls and clear the wilderness, and what can be done is also along the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, if the people are caught by the devils, whether it is enslavement or slaughter, he is unwilling in his heart.

After taking a few deep puffs of his cigarette, Lei Yizhen asked, "How is the situation on the front line?" ”

"The night attack failed and the attack began," said Chief of Staff Xu Dachun. "However, the front line said that the Japanese used heavy artillery, and it is estimated that the artillery wing that had just been transferred to the front line in the afternoon. These 105mm cannons are very powerful, and now the guns on our side are stopped. ”

When Xu Dachun was talking about the 105 cannon, Comrade Li Chengyuan, the commander of the artillery, was making a phone call to Beijing in a hurry, "...... What night can not be dispatched. The Japanese artillery balloons must have been raised, otherwise how could their guns hit me directly. Hurry up and send planes... Right! It's to observe the balloon, and you're here in the afternoon. But the work is not finished, and now there is still a ...... Right. At least one more, now directing the Japanese artillery to bomb indiscriminately. …… If you don't come again, I'll look for you Commander Pan!" ”

Li Chengyuan was panting, persuading and threatening, and finally got the plane done, so he hung up the phone with a snap, and then said to Lei Yizhen and Xu Dachun a little bottomlessly: "Can this plane fly at night?" ”

"Airships can fly." Xu Dachun looked at his nervous appearance and laughed.

"Damn, the airship still wants you to say it. I'm talking about airplanes, and the Japanese must have raised the observation balloon with such accuracy now, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to touch the hair. "Li Chengyuan is a veteran artilleryman, and he is very proficient in counter-artillery tactics. Because of this, he was very worried about those cannons, he looked at Lei Yizhen and said: "The Japanese want to make a detour, so we can't make a detour and make a surprise attack on their artillery?" ”

Lei Yizhen saw him and said, "What, you want to snatch these cannons back?" ”

"It's not enough to snatch it back, but it's possible to destroy it, these cannons are farther and more powerful than us, how do I feel uncomfortable in my heart, I built yì infantry to send some people, and I also made a detour." Li Chengyuan insisted.

Seeing that Li Chengyuan wanted to use artillery to pry the infantry again, Lei Yizhen said with a smile, "You, forget what you said at the beginning, the army must be dominated by infantry and artillery secondary, you are good, you want the infantry to revolve around the artillery." No wonder the state ...... over there"

Lei Yizhen didn't go on when he said this, Li Chengyuan's problem is actually the problem of the army's combat focus, he has been playing with artillery for a long time, and he knows the power of artillery, so many times in wartime the consideration is mainly artillery, but the Fuxing Army only has infantry divisions, not artillery divisions, and artillery is for infantry attacks, not infantry for artillery bombardment.

"If you want to attack in a roundabout, you can't just make a detour with the 105 cannon." Lei Yizhen didn't speak, Xu Dachun said on the side: "Intelligence shows that the smallest caliber of the field heavy artillery that the Japanese army landed this time is this 105 cannon, and there are 150 cannons, 150 howitzers, and 240 howitzers. ”

"That's what the chief of staff said." Seeing this, Lei Yizhen also affirmed Xu Dachun's words. "There are several wings of the Japanese army, and this field heavy artillery is almost a division, and if you want to take a detour, you can serve him in one pot, and piecemeal is not the way."

Lei Yizhen didn't say that he was dead, Li Chengyuan had some hope, and then his business was to wait for the plane, as long as the observation balloon raised by the Japanese army was knocked out again, then the Japanese would become blind again.

He waited here, and after a few phone calls rang outside, in the noise, the voice of a staff officer was particularly harsh: "What! Roundabout? Where did you go back to it...... What, Beicai Village! How many devils are there? ”

Before the staff officer hung up the phone, Xu Dachun's eyes were staring at the map, and he patted the gap between Hudian and Longwan River in the east of Yang Village, "There is Longwan River on the east side, and it is inconvenient to cross the river at night, the Japanese army should have drilled through this gap, they want to cut us into two, the front is Yangcun, and the back is the county seat, which is really a good plan." ”

Xu Dachun said that the staff officer who had just answered the phone came to report: "Report, a brigade of the enemy army has been found near Beicai, carrying heavy weapons such as mountain artillery organs, and there may also be an iron car, which cannot be broken by machine guns. ”

"Iron car?" Xu Dachun asked in surprise. "What kind of iron car?"

"An iron cart pushed by a man." The staff officer said according to the original words on the phone, "It is estimated that it is a new weapon of the Japanese army." ”

"New weapon ......" Xu Dachun silently recited these three words, and when he was about to say something, Lei Yizhen asked the staff officers loudly: "In addition to the detour of the Japanese army in the east, what about the west?" Is there any movement of the Japanese army? ”

"There's no report over there, and there's no anomaly for the time being." The staff officers shook their heads.

"Call them and keep them on their guard." Lei Yizhen said: "If you can't do it, you will withdraw people from the first trench and guard until the second trench is on standby." ”

Lei Yizhen said this, and the staff officer went to confess when he heard the words, and as soon as he left, Xu Dachun asked: "Are you worried that the Japanese are attacking the west?" ”

"It's possible! Isn't it too strange that there is no movement in the west and a frontal assault and a detour in the east? Lei Yizhen said, "Under normal circumstances, the west should be a feint even if it doesn't attack, but now it's good, there is no movement at all." After saying this, he asked, "What happened to the iron car that I just reported?" ”

"The devil knows what's going on." Xu Dachun said, "Isn't it like learning from the jet train we used during the Russo-Japanese War." ”

Xu Dachun is really in a word, at this time the Japanese army in Beicai Village is pushing a steel plate bulletproof vehicle, this is an enlarged version of the steel half-human shield they used in the Russo-Japanese War, when the trench attack, this is a propulsion weapon, countless machine gun bullets hit the steel plate outside the car and clanged, these bulletproof vehicles shot in a column, covering the infantry behind the car to advance, for a while seemed unscathed.

Lieutenant General Nagaoka learned from the telegram that his new gadget could achieve such an effect, his face was full of smiles, and the huge beards on both sides seemed to have grown a little longer, but at the same time as he was excited, the defenders' mortars began to exert power, and huge shells fell from the sky, blowing up the Japanese infantry behind the bulletproof car and howling wolves, and the emergency field artillery also began to shoot directly, once the shells hit the bulletproof car was a sea of fire, and the Japanese troops pushing the cart forward instantly saw Amaterasu.

The enemy's artillery fire was fierce, and he was not advancing or retreating, but after all, the 9th Division in charge of the attack had participated in the Lushun attack battle, and the soldiers with vises saw that the bulletproof vehicle was ineffective, and with the wave of the squad leader's sword, they all rushed to the trench with a shout. Under the lights, the Japanese army left the bulletproof car and rushed to the trench like a madman, the machine gunner was stunned for a moment, and suddenly held his breath and kept pulling the trigger, strafing the Japanese soldiers who were charging to the death, one cartridge belt was finished, and another cartridge belt was finished, I don't know how many cartridge belts were finished, the water in the holster water tank began to boil, and the Japanese dead bodies piled up in front of the trench also accumulated into a hill. Relying on the cover of this hill, there were more and denser Japanese soldiers shouting and rushing, just when the machine gunners thought that they could not hold it, nearly 100 mortar shells suddenly fell on the front of the trench, countless fires flashed at once, and the sound of shouting finally stopped.

"Ahh Yes! As the flare rose again, the machine gunner shouted in fright and retreated, which made the officer next to him also look ahead, by the light of the sky, the overlapping Japanese corpses made him tremble, this is the battlefield, this is hell! (To be continued......)