The 173rd Division is a regular army, and it is also clear when it comes to fighting, and it looks much stronger than the garrison regiment commanded by Liu Shanyang, and the weapons they are equipped with are also stronger than the garrison regiment. The Japanese troops who were reconnoitring by fire were getting closer and closer to the flank position of the garrison regiment, but Liu Goat, who personally commanded the battle, never gave the order to open fire, and the two company commanders on the position frequently looked at Liu Goat, and these 20 Japanese soldiers were only 70 meters away from them, but Liu Goat still sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai without any reaction.

"Pap" "Pap" The advancing Japanese troops began to shoot tentatively, and the bullets flying through the trenches carried a swishing scream, and the soldiers of the garrison regiment who were squatting in the trenches preparing for battle were terrified. 70 meters, 60 meters, 50 meters, these cat-waisted Japanese soldiers have already entered the range of less than 50 meters from the trench, and Liu Goat with a telescope still does not move. Liu Goat didn't give the order to fire, so they didn't dare to shoot in the position, and no one wanted to be the unlucky guy who was shot by Liu Goat himself.

When the group of Japanese soldiers crossed the distance of 40 meters, Liu Goat put down his binoculars and grabbed the Mauser rifle leaning against him, "Pass down the order, hear my gunfire and fire together, and the machine gun continues to hide." Waiting for his herald to leave, Liu Goat in the trench slowly lowered the muzzle of his gun and aimed at the Japanese commander Cao who had been observed by himself for a while. Cao Chang was equivalent to a sergeant, and he was also used as a low-ranking officer in the Japanese army, so Liu Shanyang first regarded him as his target.

Liu Goat's marksmanship was the best in the entire garrison regiment, but the distance of more than 30 meters was as simple and skilled as eating for him, if it weren't for the novices from letting go of the first shot, he wouldn't have put the Japanese soldiers at such a close distance before they were ready to fire. "Slap" Liu Goat's right shoulder on the butt of the gun fell back slightly with the sound of the gun, and then saw that the Japanese soldier Cao Chang who was aimed at him had been shot and fell to the ground, and the bullet fired by Liu Goat accurately hit Cao Chang's neck, and Liu Goat could clearly see the blood mist splattered from Cao Chang's neck.

"Fire, fire." Liu Goat's gunshot was the signal, the trenches of the garrison resounded unevenly gunshots, the Japanese soldiers who had been cautious were not as fast as the bullets after all, although those of them who reacted quickly lay on the ground to avoid a catastrophe, but there were still more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were beaten into blood gourds by the dense bullets. "Hit, Lao Tzu hit one." Some people in the trenches began to shout, and some people wept and pulled the bolt of their guns to reload the bullets again, and those who wept and mourned were the guys who missed the first shot.

"Don't mess around, aim and shoot again, they won't be able to run when they come." Liu Goat snapped a few shots to turn the few Japanese soldiers who tried to shoot on the ground into screaming wounded soldiers, and these Japanese soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness were good targets, so that Liu Goat's novices could adapt to the battlefield environment as much as possible. In the end, none of the 20 or so Japanese soldiers who came to do fire reconnaissance left alive, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and just when the soldiers of the garrison regiment in the trenches were in high spirits, the Japanese carried out artillery bombardment again.

The Japanese army's artillery bombardment this time was much stronger than the previous round of shelling, Liu Goat squatting in the anti-artillery hole even heard the movement of the 75 Mountain Artillery, in addition to the main position of the 713 Division in the position outside the city, there were sporadic gunfires, but no one could be seen on the side of the garrison regiment, and all the people were driven into the anti-artillery hole by Liu Goat, and even an observation post did not stay in the position. "There are a bunch of fools from the 173rd Division to show Lao Tzu the little devils, why do you have to rush to send people out to die." Liu Goat, who was squatting in the anti-artillery hole, listened to the ping-pong gunshots outside, and secretly cursed in his heart that the people of the 173rd Division were stupid people who didn't know whether to live or die.

Liu Goat had long been accustomed to this kind of overwhelming shelling, but the soldiers of the garrison regiment under his command could not endure this kind of extremely shocking shelling, and a few soldiers of the garrison regiment who did not listen to the advice and wanted to flee from the position were cut into pieces by the shrapnel flying across the position as soon as they got out of the anti-artillery hole. The corpse fragments scattered on the position made the soldiers in the anti-artillery hole vomit, they had never seen such a bloody scene before, and the body fragments were from people they knew.

"You can see it, this is the fate of the deserters, you don't need Lao Tzu to make a move, the little devil will do it, if you want to live, stay in the position honestly, and do what Lao Tzu explains, otherwise this is their fate." Dead corpses often appear in the poisonous oath, and dead corpses mean that the deceased cannot be reincarnated, which is even more difficult to accept than letting you die, so when Liu Goat's loud voice shouted in the position, the soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery holes secretly clenched the rifles in their hands.

It was no different from the usual practice of the Japanese army, and before the shelling was over, the shouts of observation posts sounded on the main position of the 173rd Division. Liu Goat, who had drilled out of the anti-artillery hole after hearing the sound, observed the front of the position with a telescope, and the Japanese attacking troops had appeared in the field more than 500 meters away from the position, and could slowly advance here. Liu Goat did not order the soldiers of the garrison regiment in the anti-artillery hole to come out to prepare for battle, because he knew that the Japanese army was likely to have another round of artillery bombardment, and it was impossible for the Japanese attacking troops to attack from 500 meters away.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" Each army has a relatively fixed battle mode, and the Japanese army is naturally no exception, and at the same time that the Japanese attacking troops began to move forward slowly, another round of Japanese artillery bombardment began. The shells that came through the air with a similar screech fell rapidly, and the position and the field around the position naturally became an area of concentrated attack, and the position and a large area around it were filled with the light and smoke of the explosion. The defenders' positions, which were basically intact before the bombardment, gradually turned into ruins under the fierce bombardment and continuous shelling of the Japanese army, and the national army battle flag that was originally fluttering on the main position also disappeared in the artillery fire, and the Japanese artillery bombardment lasted for nearly 3 minutes before weakening. Following the offensive habits of the Japanese army, as soon as the artillery fire stopped, the slogans of the officers of the 173rd Division sounded in the positions surrounding the front of the county town. With Liu Goat in the position, the company and platoon commanders of the garrison regiment did not need to worry about their combat roles and positions at all, they only needed to act according to Liu Goat's orders.

Liu Goat did not give the order to prepare for battle, and all the soldiers of the garrison regiment on the position shrank in the anti-artillery hole with peace of mind, perhaps they themselves also hoped to be able to squat in this anti-artillery hole until the end of the battle. After a while, a young officer ran along the trench from the main position of the 173rd Division, judging by the insignia and insignia on his uniform, he should have been a second lieutenant. "Where's your head Liu? I'm looking for you, Captain Liu. Looking at the empty position of the garrison, the second lieutenant stopped for a moment, and could only pull out an unlucky guy from an anti-artillery hole and asked in a hurry and loudly.

The unlucky guy who was pulled out of the anti-artillery hole by the second lieutenant happened to be one of the two company commanders, he naturally knew the location of Liu Goat, and took the second lieutenant of the 173rd Division to find Liu Goat's anti-artillery hole, and the company commander who completed the task turned around and left. "Commander Liu, our deputy division commander is now on the main position, and he asks you to go over and discuss the next combat deployment." Seeing Liu Goat, the second lieutenant officer sent by the 173rd Division to deliver the news first gave a military salute, and then conveyed Zhou Yuan's order to Liu Goat, who was squatting in the anti-artillery hole and smoking.

Liu Goat, who drilled out of the anti-artillery hole, did not answer directly, but nodded humbly, and finally said in a calm tone, and the second lieutenant of the 173rd Division pointed to the direction he had just come from and left in a hurry. Liu Goat didn't want to fight according to Zhou Yuan's deployment, but who called Zhou Yuan's military rank was greater than himself, and the 173rd Division was an integrated A regiment, which occupied an absolute advantage in terms of strength and weapon configuration. First, he held a telescope and observed the front of the position for a while, and then called the two company commanders under him to give a few orders, and then Liu Goat took the two heralds along the trench to the main position of the 173rd Division.

The flank position of the garrison regiment was not connected to the main position of the 173rd Division, and when digging these trenches, Liu Shanyang deliberately moved the flank position back a few meters, and did not dig the field between the two positions. Quickly walking to the end of the trench, Liu Goat found a relatively narrow place in the trench, put his hands on the edge of the trench, stepped on the two walls of the trench with his legs in turn, and easily climbed up. The two heralds who followed him did the same, each carrying his rifle and climbing out of the trench, but they were more clumsy in their climbing movements.

Leaving the trenches, the three men soon came to the edge of a bush, where five or six soldiers of the 173rd Division in steel helmets were recovering their machine-gun positions with fresh bushes. The bushes are gently sloping towards the county, and the top of the slope looks about two meters above the ground. Walking up to the top of the slope, you will see the avenue leading to the county seat, there are some high and low trees growing on both sides of the avenue, and the positions around the front of the county town are dug by the garrison regiment.

"Obediently, I thought that our side was not lightly bombed by the cannon of the little devil, look at the people here, we can be regarded as autumn without any crimes." One of the two heralds looked at the main position of the 173rd Division with his mouth wide open, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. When the Japanese army sent a small force to conduct fire reconnaissance on the defenders, the 173rd Division on the main position fired back very fiercely, and they were naturally much stronger when they were bombarded by Japanese artillery. There was even a section of trench in the main position that had been bulldozed by Japanese artillery fire, and Liu Shanyang guessed that the 173rd Division must have arranged a machine-gun position there.